------- Additional Comments From giovannibajo at libero dot it 2004-11-02 11:55 ------- (In reply to comment #7)
> This point has been discussed in a number of PRs already. I maintain > my position that gcc could invoke the as-if rule to give these functions > internal linkage if they aren't taken as template parameters. Since > there is no user-visible effect, this is well within the allowed range, > and it would save us from a good number of the problems we've had over > time with mangling of symbol names in anonymous namespaces. I don't think it would solve the problem about mangling because the function/classes in anonymous namespaces can still be used as template arguments, so they could end up being mangled. But it is an interesting point of view. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18267
